Antique & Collectible Books & Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is 1942 publication by the United States Office of War Information entitled "Tale of a City". The short booklet is full of depressing black and white illustrations and the story of Warsaw's fall to the Nazis during World War II...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare signed first edition of "Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic ??? The Flight to the South Pole" by Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Byrd, a Virginia native with ties to John Rolfe and Pocahontas, was a United...

ARTIFACT: This is a first American edition of George Orwell's "Animal Farm". It was published in 1946, one year after the original publication in Britain. Orwell had a hard time finding any willing publishers for his controversial novel...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1913 edition of "Successful Fruit Culture" by Samuel T(aylor) Maynard. This book was published by Orange Judd Company of New York. The title was originally published in 190There are several black and white photographs and...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1907 (eleventh) edition of "The Nursery-Book: A Complete Guide to the Multiplication of Plants" by Professor L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey. This book was published by Macmillan Company as part of their "Rural...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1908 new and revised (third) edition of "The Horticulturalist's Rule-Book: A Compendium of Useful Information for Fruit-Growers, Truck-Gardeners, Florists and Others" by Professor L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey. Bailey founded...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1880s or 1890s edition of "Caspar the Gaucho, A Tale of the Gran Chaco" by Capitan Thomas Mayne Reid, an Irish-born American author of the nineteenth century. The title was originally published in London in 1880. This...